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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Buckeyes finished off their 2020 signing class and introduced two new assistant coaches. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.5

Our Buckeye headlines for its signing day week. It's the late signing period.

0:44.9

So Ohio State signed one person to wrap up their 25 person class. That's what they did on Wednesday on National Signing Day.

0:52.3

And these are the important things going on with the Buckeyes, brought to you by Buckeye Talk

0:57.3

from Cleveland.com, Doug Lamey, Maurice, Nathan Baird, and Stephen Means.

1:04.6

Ohio State finished fifth in the final recruiting rankings in the class of 2020.

1:10.8

The Buckeyes added one player to get to their 25-person class.

1:14.8

Stephen Means, how does that fit in nationally with the powerhouse programs that Ohio State is competing against?

1:21.2

Yeah, so they finished fifth in the country in the final rankings first in the Big Ten.

1:25.6

As far as the country, Georgia was number one, Alabama was second, Clemson was third, and LSU was number four.

1:30.5

So we know that 2019 recruiting class was a little hinky for Ohio State.

1:35.5

It was a smaller group anyway, plus there was a transition from Urban Meyer to Ryan Day.

1:41.1

But in 2017 and 2018, both those years, Ohio State was number two in the nation. What do you think at number five in the nation? Ryan Day's first full recruiting class. I think it's solid given what they tried to accomplish. They went and got some national big-time guys like Julian Fleming, the number one wide receiver in the country. But then they got Ohio's best players. Paris Johnson, Jr., the number one offensive tackle on the country. They went got a legend Kavos. Those guys that they had to reaffirm who were already committed when Urban Maya was still the coach and then recommitted or had to reaffirm their commitment once Ryan Day became the head coach. But then they also got some three-star guy development guys where those guys are going to be here four and five years and can be the senior

2:18.6

leaders at that point.

2:20.1

So they got a good mixture of great players from Ohio, some solid guys from a national standpoint,

2:26.6

but then also some guys who are going to be three-year guys, then four or five-year guys as well.

2:29.8

And now it's on to the 2021 recruiting class.

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